Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA OE15 15010201SUPPPPHF16
The grant opportunity titled "PPHF 2016: Immunization Grants-CDC Partnership: Strengthening Public Health Laboratories" is a five-year cooperative agreement run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through CSELS, financed in part by the 2016 Prevention and Public Health Fund. Its central purpose is to make public health laboratories (PHLs) more effective, more capable, and more sustainable, both as individual laboratories and as connected parts of a broader national laboratory system in the United States, with additional reach into countries where CDC supports laboratory work. The overall emphasis is on strengthening the underlying infrastructure of public health labs, building and maintaining a skilled workforce, and improving laboratory systems so that quality and safe laboratory practice becomes more consistent across the public health and healthcare landscape. The work is expected to be grounded in science-based knowledge and aimed at identifying and spreading best practices that measurably improve laboratory performance over time, particularly in ways that bolster routine public health functions and emergency readiness.
The cooperative agreement is structured around ten required content areas that applicants must address as stand-alone sections, reflecting both broad, cross-cutting system needs and specific laboratory program domains. The six cross-cutting areas are: public health laboratory strengthening and leadership; public health preparedness and response; global health; laboratory systems and standards; workforce development; and informatics capacity. These are meant to reinforce the foundational elements that allow labs to operate reliably and at scale, such as governance and leadership development, readiness for outbreaks and emergencies, alignment with standards and quality systems, a strong training and retention pipeline, and the informatics and data capabilities needed to manage and share laboratory information efficiently. In addition to those system-wide areas, the award also requires coverage of four program-specific areas that represent major lines of public health laboratory service: newborn screening, food safety, infectious diseases, and environmental health. Taken together, these ten sections outline a comprehensive approach that touches daily operations, technical quality, training, data systems, and specialized testing programs that are central to public health protection.
A key feature of this funding opportunity is that it is single-source and effectively non-competitive. Although the eligible applicant type is listed broadly as nonprofits with IRS 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education), CDC explicitly states that no other applications are being sought because it has determined that the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) is the only organization qualified to apply. CDC justifies this decision by pointing to APHL's unique position within the PHL community and its ability to reach and coordinate the entire U.S. state, territorial, and local public health laboratory system quickly and effectively, including during public health emergencies. APHL's membership includes all state and territorial public health laboratory directors, and it is described as the single national organization representing PHLs, giving it unusually strong credibility, influence, and convening power with the target audience that this cooperative agreement is designed to serve.
CDC also ties APHL's suitability to its history and long-term partnership role in major national laboratory initiatives, including the National Laboratory System (NLS), the National Laboratory Training Network (NLTN), and the Laboratory Response Network (LRN). The opportunity requires that the applicant demonstrate at least 15 years of experience working with CDC to strengthen public health laboratory practice domestically and internationally, along with experience coordinating with external partners and stakeholders and a demonstrated record of successful partnerships. On top of technical and programmatic capacity, the awardee must be capable of managing required deliverables in compliance with federal grant administration rules, specifically 45 CFR Part 75 and/or 2 CFR Part 200, which govern issues like allowable costs, procurement, subawards, financial management, and audit expectations.
Administratively, the opportunity is listed as a discretionary cooperative agreement, meaning CDC is expected to have substantial involvement in the work beyond simply issuing funds, consistent with typical cooperative agreement arrangements. It was posted with a creation date of July 19, 2016, and an original closing date of September 19, 2016. The anticipated number of awards is one, reinforcing the single-source nature of the announcement. The award ceiling is shown as 0 in the source listing, which usually signals that the ceiling was not specified in that particular summary record rather than implying no funding; the substantive description makes clear that funds will be awarded over a five-year project period. The relevant CFDA program numbers associated with the opportunity are 93.322 and 93.765, and the funding activity category is health.
In practical terms, the grant is designed to strengthen public health laboratories as a core part of the public health system by improving leadership and coordination, ensuring better preparedness and response capacity, expanding and standardizing quality systems and laboratory practices, developing and sustaining the workforce through training and support, and modernizing informatics so labs can manage, transmit, and use data more effectively. By combining cross-cutting systems work with support for high-impact program areas like newborn screening, food safety, infectious disease testing, and environmental health, the cooperative agreement aims to improve both day-to-day public health laboratory services and the ability of the laboratory system to surge and coordinate during outbreaks and other emergencies, in the U.S. and in CDC-supported global settings.Apply for CDC RFA OE15 15010201SUPPPPHF16
- The Centers for Disease Control - CSELS in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "PPHF 2016: Immunization Grants-CDC Partnership: Strengthening Public Health Laboratories-financed in part by 2016 Prevention and Public Health Funds" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.322, 93.765.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2016-07-19.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2016-09-19. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
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